I see that we have been granted a fortnight to review eight,
inter-related, httpbis I-Ds, comprising over 300 pages, ending in the
course of IETF88 and in the run-up to a meeting when everyone comes out
of aestivation and the mailing lists are inundated.
Seems like a DoS attack to me.
Tom Petch
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From: "The IESG" <iesg-secretary(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
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Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 2:25 PM
Subject: Last Call:
<draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrations-08.txt>(Initial Hypertext
Transfer Protocol (HTTP) AuthenticationScheme Registrations) to
Informational RFC
The IESG has received a request from the Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Bis
WG (httpbis) to consider the following document:
- 'Initial Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Authentication Scheme
Registrations'
<draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrations-08.txt> as
Informational
RFC
The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org mailing lists by 2013-11-04. Exceptionally, comments
may
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Abstract
This document registers Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
authentication schemes which have been defined in standards-track
RFCs before the IANA HTTP Authentication Scheme Registry was
established.
Note that this document is part of a set, which should be reviewed
together:
* draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging
* draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics
* draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional
* draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range
* draft-ietf-httpbis-p6-cache
* draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth
* draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations
* draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrations
The file can be obtained via
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrati
ons/
Once IESG evaluation begins, IESG discussion can be tracked via
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrati
ons/ballot/
No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.